The doctoral thesis Musician Wrens: the historical legacy and the artistic-musical practice of
the opera singers from Pará Helena Nobre (1888-1965) and Ulysses Nobre (1887-1953)
proposes to reflect on the historical legacy of these artists, identifying their artistic-musical
practice from the public and private collections of Belém. As public collectins there are:
Museum of The State of Pará, Arthur Vianna Library (Sections of Rare Works, Microfilms and
Newspapers); Museum of Federal University of Pará (Vicente Salles Collection); Theater of
Peace; Carlos Gomes State Institute; Santa Izabel Cemetery and Music Academy of Pará. And,
as private collections, the ones of: Maria do Céo Nobre Gomes; Helena Maia; Maria Gilda
Nobre; Maria Helena Nobre; Jorge Nobre de Brito; Vicente Salles; Gilda Maia; Lenora Brito;
e Urubatam Castro. The thesis still proposes: 1) check the status of these files and the curent
accessibility to the historical and artistic of Helena Nobre and Ulysses Nobre; 2) investigate
who Helena and Ulysses were, their trajectory, their artistic-musical activity and performance
Spaces; 3) highlight the compositions, the interpretative repertoire of Helena and Ulysses and
the network of relationships – the Society of their era – that kept them active, helped them to
spread their artistic-musical work and enabled their artistic trajectory, despite theis social and
health disavantages; 4) propose the mapping, the virtual meeting and the dissemination of this
legacy, contributing to the accessibility, the rememorization and to the appropriation of this
history by the actual Society: by living memory. The search references authors such as: V.
Borges (2006) and K. Oliveto (2007), in the field of biographical genre in music, through the
collection and interpretation of historical documentary, bibliographicand oral sources; S.
Freitas (1983) and E. Bosi (1994), in Oral History; R. Laraia (2001), C. Geertz (1975) and J.
Blacking (2006. 2021), in the field of Music as Culture; P. Castagna (2004, 2006, 2008, 2016),
L. Oliveira (2012) and L. Heymann (1997, 2012), in the field of Music Archival Science; E.
Santos (2004), J. Santos (1996), J. Ferreira (1983), D. Silva (2009) and C. Batista (2005), in the
field of Cultural Heritage, Memory and Identity; P. Nora (1993), in the field of Place of
Memory; M. Sant’Anna (2006), L. Lévi-Strauss (2006) and F. Maia (2003), in the field of
Living Memory; P. Bourdieu (1974, 1996, 1998, 2007), in the field of Cultural and Social
Capital. It’s concluded that giving accessibility to what is kept in a museu, or in a library – place
of memory – is to reach the actual Society, showing – from the artistic-musical work of Helena
Nobre and Ulysses Nobre – part of cultural production of the first Half of twentieth century in
Belém, contributing to future academic investigations.
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